That's trippy, Raq.
Slay-er? Chosen One. She who hangs out a lot in cemeteries? You're kidding. Ask around. Look it up: Slayer comma The.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erikaj - Dec 12, 2006 9:20:08 am PST #1648 of 28160
Always Anti-fascist!
Consuela - Dec 12, 2006 3:15:36 pm PST #1649 of 28160
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Shrift, it's probably too late, but I'd recommend The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner, which has fannish behavior, girls in tall boots and feather hats learning to fence, and a tormented gay male romance. Plus, sex. I enjoyed it lots, more than The Fall of Kings, which did little for me.
shrift - Dec 12, 2006 4:55:38 pm PST #1650 of 28160
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I did already go shopping, Consuela, but I'll never turn down a book rec. I'm getting a lot of reading done on the bus these days.
JoeCrow - Dec 12, 2006 7:07:10 pm PST #1651 of 28160
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
I liked The Fall of the Kings, but more in a "so that's what they were talking about way than a "that's wicked cool" way. Kinda like the Silmarillion, actually. The Privilege of the Sword, on the other hand, rocked hardcore. I can't wait till my daughter's old enough to read it.
Laga - Dec 12, 2006 7:35:34 pm PST #1652 of 28160
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
The last book I read and loved was The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril
Volans - Dec 12, 2006 10:37:02 pm PST #1653 of 28160
move out and draw fire
I was kind of eh on The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril but I can't not recommend it. I also have a hardcover copy of it free to a good home, if anyone wants it.
Laga - Dec 12, 2006 10:41:11 pm PST #1654 of 28160
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
It took me some time to get into it. I'm very rusty on my Cthulu mythos but after the plot got rolling I was hooked the rest of the way through.
brenda m - Dec 13, 2006 2:41:35 am PST #1655 of 28160
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Did anyone here read The Devil in the White City ? (I know there was a time when every other person in Chicago was reading it, but I don't know whether that applies elsewhere.)
Volans - Dec 13, 2006 2:43:21 am PST #1656 of 28160
move out and draw fire
I read about half of it. I'm not into True Crime stories at all, and I was honestly hoping for more on the White City and less on the Devil.
brenda m - Dec 13, 2006 2:54:40 am PST #1657 of 28160
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That was more or less my issue. The serial killer bit - eh, whatever. Kind of remarkable that that particular case didn't seem to make it into the public consciousness like his contemporaries Jack the Ripper and Lizzie Borden, even in Chicago, but other than that? Boring.
The architecture and the city planning and the politics were unexpectedly fascinating. I wanted more as well, plus I read it over Thanksgiving, and I was really frustrated not having wikipedia at the ready. And as Chicago history goes in particular, it's amazing. Most of the reviews I've seen seemed to be coming from the opposite perspective though, which was puzzling.
I didn't feel that he really tied the two elements together in any but the most superficial ways. Disappointing.